"Her screech could be heard from the mountain top leagues away from the decedent slaughter of her hordes. They stopped and dropped their weapons and ran in fear. Like the back of a crashing wave, as seen from a trireme sailing the coast, they rolled into the distance back toward the Iron Dragon. Why did she pull the hordes from the tip of my swords blade? The couple days without a battle seemed to make my claymore and scutum heavier under the black sky in the wasteland. I see now she may have misjudged my return, for the foes to come next were greater and wielded steel with intelligence...I could feel her watching my long approach from her mountain top engulfed in lightning"

Stamina was low today, most likely due to a 5-6 mile hike at high elevation in the snow and wind on Christmas. I was strong in the squats although my energy quickly drained toward the last 5 reps. Same happened in the bench as I simply lost the “will” to complete my set. I made the five pound jump in rows though – so that makes up for the bench and extra.